Multicriteria decision making for reactive power compensation in distribution systems

  • Authors:

  • Whester J. Araújo;Petr Ya. Ekel;Rafael P. Falcão Filho;Illya V. Kokshenev;Henrique S. Schuffner

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Planning and Monitoring of Distribution Network Maintenance, Minas Gerais Energy Company, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil;Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil;Department of Distribution Network Planning, Minas Gerais Energy Company, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil;Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil;Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • ECC'11 Proceedings of the 5th European conference on European computing conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper presents results of research related to formulating and solving the problem of capacitor placement in distribution systems within the framework of multicriteia decision making models. The application of multicriteria approach is directed, first of all, at overcoming the difficulties of simultaneous observing contradictory constraints for the permissible upper and lower voltage limits at different buses of distribution systems as well as other important conditions in operating capacitors. The solution of the problem of capacitor placement in the multicriteria statement is based on combining the Bellman-Zadeh approach to decision making in a fuzzy environment with the application of the generalized algorithms of discrete optimization. The paper results are illustrated by computing experiments with a real distribution system.